‘Bear Smart’
program launches in
Mountain View
Submitted by: Ron Riemann

After 2 1/2 years of planning and meeting, Mountain View High School’s new ‘Bear Smart’ program launched on Wednesday, with dignitaries, parents, teachers and students on hand to celebrate the new initative.

Alberta Minister of Sustainable Resource Development, Mel Knight, M.L.A., Broyce Jacobs, Alberta Fish and Wildlife Officers, Westwind School Division, Cardston County and many others were on hand to help unveil the program, educating young and old on the grizzly bear population in the area.

Mountain View School principal Ken Peterson called it a historical day for the School and community.

“We have been looking forward to this for a long time, people worked hard and made this happen.” said Peterson.

Earlier in the day, students were shown a variety of booths and displays highlighting wildlife in the region. “With this program, we hope to create an Interpretive Centre and video conferencing with other schools in

What I brought home from Haiti
Submitted: Deanna Sykes

I think it is expressed well in the words from Daniel Berrigan.

“Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.”

I saw the look on their faces when we offered our small pieces of bread – whether it was sharing our food, medicine, water or a hug – that meeting of the eyes touches you in a way that makes you want to give< up more of yourself, your time, your skills, your resources to these people in need.

In Haiti you remember what matters most in life isn’t what we have, it is what we share. Mother Teresa said if you can’t feed a hundred, then feed one.

There is so much devastation and need in Haiti that cannot be fixed overnight, but each of us had the opportunity to make a difference one by one to those we met – patients, orphans, interpreters, and each other.